The person that was once Romanian citizen but lost the Romanian
citizenship by residing abroad will obtain Romanian citizenship by
repatriation. In the matter of the repatriated person’s minor child the law
stipulates the parents decide for the minor’s citizenship. The minor
over 14 would express separately the consent...

The citizenship is the capacity of the private person
that evokes
the permanent political, social, economical and juridical relationships
between
that private person and the state.

The Romanian citizenship proves that the private person
belongs to
the Romanian state and gives to that private person the possibility of
being
the titular of all the rights and the duties stipulated of the
Constitution and
the Romanian laws.

Principles of citizenship:

1. Only the Romanian
citizens are the owners of all rights and duties stipulated of
Constitution and
laws.

Here we can talk about:

a)the right of
elect and to be
elected

b)the right of
residing in
Romanian territory

c)the right of
being landowner in
Romania

d)the right of not
being expelled
or extradited from Romania

And
so on...

2.
The Romanian citizens have to abide by the Romanian laws and
Constitution.

3. Only the Romanian
citizens have to carry out the duties stipulated of Romanian
Constitution and
laws.

Some of those duties are:

a)fidelity for Romania

b)fulfill the
military service

4. The marriage has no
legal effect on husband’s citizenship.

5. The changing one
husband’s citizenship has no legal effect on the other husband
citizenship.

How can one person get Romanian citizenship?

In
Romania,
we can
talk about the system jus sanguinisand that means that the childbecomes Romanian citizen if he has Romanian
parents or a Romanian parent.

The citizenship law establishes four ways of
granting the citizenship:

by birth

So,
the child
born by Romanian parents or by a Romanian citizen and a
foreign/stateless
parent is a Romanian citizen.

1

by repatriation

The
person that
was once Romanian citizen but lost the Romanian citizenship by residing
abroad
will obtain Romanian citizenship by repatriation.

In
the matter of
the repatriated person’s minor child the law stipulates the parents
decide for
the minor’s citizenship. The minor over 14 would express separately the
consent.

In
order to
obtain the Romanian citizenship you can file a repatriation request to
the
Ministry of Justice.

by adoption

The
child under
18 adopted by Romanian parents or one Romanian parent will get Romanian
citizenship.

by request

This
person will
fulfill the following conditions:

a)He/she is born
and resides in
Romanian territory at the time of the request from at least 5 yrs or at
least 3
yrs if he/she is married to a Romanian citizen.

b)He/she proves
devotion to the
Romanian state and the Romanian people.

c)He/she is over 18
yrs.

d)He/she has
assured the means of
existence.

e)He/she is known
with a good
conduct and wasn’t convicted in Romania
or abroad for an offence which makes him/her unworthy of being Romanian
citizen.

f)He/she
knows the Romanian language so that
he/she could integrate in the social life.

This request can be made personally or by a person with
special and
authentic mandate.